[Koblenz]

The population decline cannot be halted

Really? Do they need more demonstrations in how to make babies?

[Alex Murphy]

Really? Do they need more demonstrations in how to make babies?

Either that, or drop income taxes to 0.0% and watch people beat a path to Germany's door.

[omega4179]

There is a mathematical model in these cases of how many childbearing women exist in a country, how many kids they are likely to have and what the maximum they are likely to have is and that can be far outstripped by death rates of an aging population.
Socialism is death for "white" cultures when working couples don't feel optomistic enough about the direction of society and the economy to put out 4-5 babies and be able to take care of them coupled with materialism like the need for 2 new cars, nice housing and nice home goods and decor. the birthrate drops to 2 then 1 per couple then the immigrants take over in a couple generations because they are not as disinclined to have 1 or 2 babies.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I read an article a few years ago that when through history and tried to correlate specific events, the economy, type of government, and a number of factors, and could not come up with any consistent factors that caused high vs. low birth rates. In some countries, high birth rates are believed to be related to the high infant mortality rate. In third world countries that practice subsistence agriculture, the belief is that people want to have enough children to survive to support them in their old age. In some countries, religion is a factor, others politics (China's repressive one child-abortion against the mother's will).
What has changes Western culture, and ultimately those countries like Japan, China, Korea, etc. is the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Clearly, easy abortion and birth control has been a factor.
Germany pays very generous benefits to mothers that have children. It doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. Even countries like Poland that have a lot of devout Catholics, the birth rate is not what it should be.

If it doesn't change, Muslims (they have high birth rates) will eventually become the dominant population in many European countries.

[GSlob]

What the little Hansel did not learn, grown-up Hans will not know... :-)

[RobbyS]

The Germans believe in nothing of consequence.